Let me repeat one nugget, though: Three out of every four tickets are on the 49ers. That’s as conspicuous of a warning sign for a bad investment opportunity as watching the FBI raid a potential stockbroker’s yacht.

The negative omens start at the betting window. They extend to the field.

San Francisco is only the third team in the last 30 years, according to R.J. Bell of Pregame.com, to give points on the road in the divisional round. And for what?

The 49ers aren’t the better team. The Panthers marched into Candlestick and shut them down 10-9 in a game that wasn’t nearly as competitive as the score indicates a couple months ago.

The narrative of the 75 percent is the 49ers offense is much improved now with the return of Michael Crabtree and the rushing of Colin Kaepernick. So improved that they put up 23 points and nearly 400 yards last week in Arctic conditions against Green Bay.

Go ahead and give points with a West Coast team traveling East for the second time in as many weeks and kicking off at 10 a.m. on their body clocks. Just expect a return on par with penny-stocks from a boiler room.